8. That's just a rationale, though.

People doing bad things rationalize their actions to excuse what they know is inexcusable. That's not so much an indictment of "value to shareholders" as it is a commentary on people. Social justice and equality are things this world sorely lacks but given enough time, opportunity and means and even those will be used as cover to perpetrate injustice and inequality. That doesn't invalidate social justice and equality; that just calls us to be more vigilant.